TY - JOUR T1 - Operationalising the Global Financing Facility (GFF) model: the devil is in the detail JF - BMJ Global Health JO - BMJ Global Health DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001369 VL - 4 IS - 2 SP - e001369 AU - Nicole A Salisbury AU - Gilbert Asiimwe AU - Peter Waiswa AU - Ashley Latimer Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://gh.bmj.com/content/4/2/e001369.abstract N2 - Summary boxRecent modelling exercises project that if fully funded, the Global Financing Facility could contribute to significant health gains for women and children, and by doing so help to facilitate the achievement of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals.Operationalisation of this approach is sure to be complicated by myriad global-level and country-level variables that affect implementation, and there are many lessons to be learnt from the experiences of Gavi and the Global Fund as they pertain to design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning.Careful coordination across funding mechanisms, at all levels (from global to country), will be crucial to achieving impact, and should be institutionalised into donor processes.The Global Financing Facility should embed opportunities for evaluation and learning at all stages to contribute to process improvement as the model evolves.In 2015, at the Third International Financing for Development Conference, world leaders launched the Global Financing Facility (GFF). The goal of the GFF is to ‘accelerate efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn, child and adolescent deaths and improve the health and quality of life of women, adolescents and children’.1 The GFF is a country-led financing approach that seeks to align funding sources, including public and private, domestic and external, for priority interventions to address the health of women and children. Unlike other multilaterals, the GFF provides only modest amounts of grant funding to leverage other development assistance funding (including loans) and domestic resources to prioritise a country’s most pressing reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N) needs.An article recently published in this journal2 highlights the enormous potential of the GFF model, if fully funded, to close the financing gap and contribute to significant health gains. Chou et al 2 estimate that with $2.6 billion of GFF Trust Fund resources, the GFF partnership could contribute … ER -